The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-24
lively rank q thing as we arc told the
publishing business 10 in England. Here
is an idea, and our kin beyond sea are
| welcome 10 Il.
BILL SYE ON NEWSPAPER MEN.

H.# u - .F..N
BILL SYE ON NEwsrArEi, MEN.
II" Relates Sofas Of tho Romance OF n
We journalistic Life.
Eas York World.
l know that there arc mon slo have
been connected with journalism for years,
who maintain that 1t 10 not ahablt, but
that with them It. Is absolutely necessary.
For this feaaon ! consulted Mr.. James
Miggleson,. OF ARhevillc, who edits the
Daily Jnptectie, q morning paper Of this
place, and learned from him that Il Ia not
necessary 10 set up Of nights In order to
run q morning paper.
So the wives and mothOrs OF morning
Journalists and printera should not longer
be deceived by this tifne.ltonofed fraud
upon their truBting natures.
Mr.. Miggleson Bays that a rafting good
morning paper can DO worked OF the
press lsy supper time, and the evening 70.
served Tor social intercourse.
And yet | know q pale, studious news
paper man, with silver 10 his hair, a mar
In whose mouth butter would scarcely
melt, who has, for twenty years and more,
bamboo2(ed his trusting wife and grown.
up aon with this transparent fraud.
He told me only a short time sgo, with
genuine pathos, that the first time he had
seen his own son by daylight WINS Inst fall.
He said that his son came Of age last Oc'
tohcr, and through the courtesy of a mt
tuRl friend (the young mans mo!hor) he
had tho pleasure Of meeting him on cleo,
ton day and forming an acquaintance
which he says may yet ripen into a strong
friendship.
! haye another acquaintance who insists
In editing a morning paper, hut does mol
believe in allowing his children to utterly
forget him. lie does not want his boys t
think they arc orphans just because he Il
not always at home. He 10 n man Of very
strong will and o strict dieci3linarian. 81
he gets q holiday every two weeks In or
der to 20 home and do up his Furnishing
One time that he found that bis eldesI
or Older SOIL DO not know which, be.
cause I am away from home without M
librmy-had violated the rules OF the
houae in a sad manner.
IA neal rs l BIN able to come at The
facts, the'boy had taken q quart OF corr
and sewed a long thread through each
kernnl, GhoTing great patience and per.
Severance in go dong. He then tied the
ends OF tho threads together into one
knot and scattered the corn where a large
flock OF geese had been in the habit Of
associating and pooling for mutual prof;
aud improvement.
A man who came along that way about
dusk said he saw about thirty geese etand.
ing around in u circle looking ~reproacil.
fully at each other and trying to agree on
some method by which they could all 70
home together without tufning q part o.
their crowd wrong side out, while behind
a large board fence there wa Il boy who
seemed to be enjoying himself in a small
way.
The incident WIS reported TO the boys
father, who came home and placed his
son under a large dry goods box in the
cellar, after which he piled three or foul
hundred pounds OF coal on top OF the in,
verted box. He then made q few remarkr
for the boys good, which were followed
by the smothered remark: "Rats!" from
the inside OF the box. After ordering that
the box should not be disturbed till his
io'hiL, NY LIehu pun Ol NIB COAL INT
went back to his work.
This WAS just as the returns began &c
return in the Autumn OF 1854. My friend
did not go home Tor two weeks and iosyo!
all about tho boy till it came time to dc
up his punishment for q fortnight.
When the truth flashed over him he
WAS filled with the keenest remorBe and
went home is soon MS he had sent in the
last proof, but when he went down in the
cellar he found the box empty and the
following note written upon it with &
pencil:
"Dear Paw do not weap for me I have
Wen! away from my happy home where ]
vas onct 30 gay and Tree do Not assaaBa
nate nav bocuz che Pride up the boz
with n stick OF cord-wood yesterday and
fed Me she left the box So | could Buat
iLh am gone Far Far away do not wess
for me It il better Tor me and YOU to be
Apart. ennyhow it is better for me to be
j like being Apart a Good deal better
think i will take a ham aud q gar Of Pre-
series oil which i am ~pMhionately fond
but will Renumerste you oae bay as
heaven is my jug so No moar at preaen;
from your protdisle Son Henry"
aMaiHc, ". G., March s.